
Aim: What you do before throwing something
Hypothesis: Wasn’t this some half-eagle, half-horse thing in Harry Potter?
Variables: I was away the day they taught this
Materials: What you make a dress out of. Duh!
Method: I think you clean windows with this
Results: Nope
Discussion: But I always get in trouble whenever I’m having a discussion in class!
Conclusion: The End
Just when you get to the fun part in science – lighting Bunsen burners – you have to stop and write stuff. What’s the point?
Science is the best way of telling which ideas we have are useful, and which we should forget. There are really four simple steps to doing science;
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Learn what other people have worked out already
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Use these ideas to come up with your own
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Test your own ideas
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Tell other people what your results were